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News Archive November 2008
28th November
- Woolworths IT jobs under threat
- Anti-virus no defence against botnets, says vendor
- Woman cleared of MySpace bullying
- Can supercomputers help save the economy?
27th November
- Secondhand PCs Go Unused Despite Demand
- Lycos Europe to close after failing to find buyer
- Internet worm exploits Windows vulnerability
- Yahoo tops in Japan, Google close behind
- Obama names Internet commerce expert to new economic board
26th November
- Phishing attacks boosted by smarter malware
- Researchers argue over spam levels
- Google admits breaking App Store rules
- Spam Levels Creep Back Up 2 Weeks After McColo Shutdown
25th November
- Facebook awarded $873 Million damages against spammer
- HP's sales up 19 percent, earnings down slightly
- YouTube videos get widescreen treatment
- Google's new Chrome beta gets bookmark control
24th November
- Online fraudsters 'steal £3.3bn'
- Gmail exploit may allow attackers to forward e-mail
- 2 engineers sentenced for espionage
- Police investigate 'live suicide' on internet
21st November
- Google gives users a say on search results
- Phishing, e-mail money laundering scams on the rise
- Online time 'is good for teens'
- Government still losing at least a computer a week
20th November
- Internet-savvy Britons lead digital league
- BNP row: On the blogs
- Employees sue for unpaid Windows Vista overtime
- Amazon: We're a Technology Company
19th November
- Yahoo Shares Soar as Jerry Yang Agrees to Quit CEO Post
- Teen hacker confesses three-year crime spree
- New Firefox app lets users pimp their browsers
- US 'cyber-bullying' case begins
18th November
- Spam drop could boost Trojan attacks
- Microsoft in patent battle over Visual Studio
- HP to Extend Holiday Shutdown to Cut Costs
- Jerry Yang to quit as Yahoo boss
17th November
- Adobe wants to bridge gap between PCs and cloud
- Young people, men more optimistic when tech fails
- Microsoft: First exploit ratings show success
- UK identities sold for £80 online
14th November
- Second Life affair leads to couple's real-life divorce
- Telcos: Don't mess up the Internet with regulation
- Capita gets £60m deal to merge NHS websites
- Companies look to outsource data centres
13th November
- 3 launches 'Facebook phone' for Christmas mobile war
- AMD seeks redemption with 'Shanghai' chip
- Windows Live tries to show its social side
- Google tries AdWords model to make money from YouTube
12th November
- Programmer unlocks hidden Windows 7 features
- Microsoft security patch was seven years in the making
- Google now tracking flu trends via search
- Rash of Intel, AMD warnings issued by analysts
11th November
- 72% of businesses say reliable internet vital
- 1.3m DNS servers vulnerable
- Google CEO Says 'No Thanks' to Obama CTO Job
- Vintage IBM tape drive in Apollo moon dust rescue
10th November
- MGM first to post full-length features to YouTube
- MSN hosts online sci-fi series Kirill
- University lecturer gets £5,000 to study Wii
- Of Dell's self-encrypting laptop
7th November
- Cisco, Recession Fears Send Stocks Plunging
- Bloggers getting bigger and messier
- Microsoft cold shoulders Yahoo!'s interest in new talks
- Facebook CEO doesn't lose sleep over company's $15B valuatio
6th November
- Mobile Users Can't Get Enough of Search
- AMD slashes 500 more jobs
- Yang 'disappointed' after Google deal collapses
- EBay prepares for £15m UK media pitch
5th November
- E-voting: What will it take for a smooth election?
- Is the internet going down down under?
- Internet now a voter disenfranchisement tool
- The end of an era - Windows 3.x
4th November
- Barclays and Goldman Sachs squeeeeze IT staff
- Firefox cracks 20% market share in October, then slips
- Yahoo and Google retool advertising agreement
- IBM Expands Ways to Get a Grip on Data
3rd November